Floor waxer



Patented Aug. 9, 1927.

UNiTEo STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. MILLI-IOLLAND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TOJOI-IN S. CLEMENT COMPANY, INC., F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ACORPORATION or PENNSYLVANIA.

FLOOR WAXER.

Application filed August 7, 1925. VSerial No. 48,744.

My invention 'consists in an improved device adapted particularly forintermittently feeding liquid wax from an attached container andconveniently spreading the same upon a floor preparatory to polishing;and the novel and advantageous construction thereof is hereinafter fullyset forth in connection with the accompanying drawing, and clearlydefined in the subjoined claims.

Fig. 1 is a centrallongitudinal sectional elevation of a deviceembodying my invention in preferred form; an attached wax container orreservoir being indicated 1n dotted lines.

F ig. 2 is mainly a plan view of the same, indicating also thecasing-connected handle; the valve being removed and a portion of thecasing being broken away so as to revea-l the enclosed brush back.

The drawing indicates an ordinary brush having a wood back the middlebristles however being omitted, in line with a circular aperture 11provided in the back; and the latter being provided with spaced apart 25screw-posts 12, 12, by means of which the casing 15, her-einafter fullydescribed, is movably secured to the back with springs 13, 13 interposedso as to normally maintain the casing at a determined height above fi'lthe brush bacll The casing 15 is very economically andv satisfactorilymade of die-shaped sheet metal. It comprises rectangular end and sidewalls 16 and 17 which loosely lit the brush 33 back 10.; a top plate 18the intermediate portion of which is cupped so as to form afunnel-.shaped portion 19 depending loosely into-the aperture 11; and ahollow upward extension 20 concentric with the funnel portion 19 andforming in connection with the latter a discharge chamber 21, throughwhich, and the aperture 11, liquid wax is delivered to the floor undertreatment. This upward extension 2() of the casing, which is separatelydie-shaped and rigidly attached to the latter as indicated, has itscircular wall so formed as tol tightly engage the mouth of a removableliquid-waX container or reservoir indicated at in dotted lines; whileits closure plate 26 is formed with a central opening forming adepressed valve seat 27.

The valve 30 is provided with a stem 31 extending downward through thedischarge chamber 21 into the back aperture 11. The valve 1s normallyseated by a stem-enclosing spring 32 pressing against a fixed collar 33.As shown, the notched lower end 34 of the stenrhowever engages asupporting bar 35 provided in the lower portion of the back aperture 11;a bent wire secured to the back 10, conveniently forming such supportingbar,A and serving to maintain the valve 30' at a fixed height above thebrush regardless of any relative downward movement imparted to thecasing.

The liquid wax may be contained in the can 25 in which it isconveniently salable; the mouth 25a thereof being adapted to tightly litupon the casing extension 2O so that when the can is in invertedposition upon the casing it serves as a reservoir under control of thevalve 80. As indicated the can is steadied and tightly held upon thecasing 15 by means of a bail 38 pivotally connected to the latter; and ahandle 36-3-7 is alsoy pivotally connected to the casing so as toconveniently serve both for moving the brush to spread the fed liquid,and for intermittently pressing the casing downward upon the brush toeffect the feeding. This relative movement of the casing upon the brushcompresses the valve spring 32 without changing the position of thevalve 30 relative to the brush which supports it by means of thecross-bar 85, so that the liquid is permitted to flow downward throughthe casing Achamber 21 and brush-back aperture,

`11,to the floor, until the ldownward pressure upon the casing isremoved. The construction of the device is as simple as its operationand very inexpensive.

What I claim is:

1. In a floor waxer comprising a brush having an apertured back; arelatively movable casing having a yielding connection to the brush backand said casing being provided with a valved discharge chamber forming atapered reservoir-attaching upward projection thereon and a depending W0LTI ing a dilcharge chamber with a depending 10 vfunnel portion slidablein said aperture and a valved upward exteneion of tapering forni adaptedfor SupportingV a separate liquid reservoir, said cae-ing havingpi'voted thereto an operatingA handle and reservoir retaining means. Y

In testimony whereof I zi'iix my signature.

JAMES H. MLLHOLLAND.

